Anyone else's spidey sense tingling with the Tesla bomb, N.O. Isis attack
Posted by RaskolnikovX on January 2, 2025, 11:39 am
and the apparent re-emergence of the car as weapon terror attacks in Germany before that? All seems mighty convenient.
And the Tesla thing was a bit on the nose....no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Using vehicles to indiscriminately attack people has a long history, mostly unrelated to organised terrorism, such as the 22-year-old Czechoslovak woman who killed eight people in 1973, citing her grievances against society.
Terrorist groups began using ramming attacks in the 1990s, according to a study by the Mineta Transportation Institute, part of San Jose State University. The majority of the 184 vehicle-ramming attacks between 1963 and mid-2019, when the study was published, took place in Israel and the West Bank.
Islamic groups: In a 2010 article in its magazine, Inspire, Al-Qaeda encouraged adherents to use vehicles “to mow down the enemies of Allah”. But the tactic did not really catch on among would-be terrorists until several years later, when the Islamic State group began to call publicly for vehicle attacks.
New York City: A man drove a pick-up truck into a crowded bike path in 2017 along the Hudson River in Manhattan, killing eight and injuring at least 11 before he was shot by police. Notes found near the scene indicated the killer’s allegiance to the Islamic State group, authorities said.
Israel and the West Bank: The use of vehicles as weapons has become common, with dozens of attacks by Palestinians against Israeli soldiers and civilians in the past few decades. The tactic became more prominent in the 2010s, during a wave of “lone wolf” attacks by Palestinians who were largely unaffiliated with organised armed groups.
Nice, France: More than 80 people were killed and hundreds injured when a man drove a 19-tonne truck through a crowd of spectators watching Bastille Day fireworks in southern France. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack; investigators said the driver had been self-radicalised by watching jihadi videos, with no evidence linking him directly to the terrorist group.
Charlottesville, Virginia: A man drove his car into a crowd of people protesting a gathering of white supremacists, killing one woman and injuring nearly 40 other people. He was convicted of first-degree murder.
George Floyd protests: During civil rights demonstrations after Mr Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in 2020, there were at least 66 vehicle attacks on protesters, according to Mr Ari E. Weil, the deputy research director at the Chicago Project on Security and Threats of the University of Chicago. It was sometimes difficult to assess whether the attacks were spontaneous or pre-meditated.
China: In November, 35 people were killed after a man drove a vehicle into a crowd at a sports centre in the southern city of Zhuhai. A week later, another man drove a car into a group of people near an elementary school in the central city of Changde, injuring multiple students.
Germany’s Christmas markets: In 2016, a man killed 12 people by driving a truck into a crowd in central Berlin. In December, a man drove into a crowd in the eastern city of Magdeburg, killing at least five people, including a nine-year-old child.
This 'spidey sense' just may be legit if one connects these events in time. For example, is there a 'cluster' of these events in certain time-lines. I guess there could be some geographical significance in some cases (ref article). Above my pay-grade etc : ). Some people are better at puzzles than others hehe.
Re: Anyone else's spidey sense tingling with the Tesla bomb, N.O. Isis attack
on January 2, 2025, 11:39 am